It is a brilliant resource for people of African heritage, particularly parents, teachers and mentors.

Many of the men featured in the book Black Success Stories state clearly that they would have ended up in prison, or dead, if it had not been for the fact that they acknowledged their own positive history and culture, and had the support and encouragement of their own community. African Caribbean young people need role models who reflect them in positive ways, whenever and wherever possible, in order to counteract hundreds of years of negative conditioning.

·Diane Abbott MP, the first Black woman to be elected to the House of Commons

·journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu

and many more.

With a foreword by Lord Herman Ouseley of Focus Consultancy. Lord Ouseley was the first African Caribbean head of the Commission for Racial Equality and has championed equalities issues for many years.

Contained within these pages are guidelines and signposts to achievement which should be read by every African Caribbean young person, parent and educator.